Columbia River Gillnetter; Vol. 37 No. 1: Winter 2006

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C=olumbia River Fishermen’s Protective Union Winter 2006 / Vol. 37, No. 1
GEN’L. WASHINGTON 1909-1930s
The GEN’L. WASHINGTON in 1909 on one of her early voyages in front of Astoria with Pt. Ellice and North Shore Washington
in the background. Notice the GEN’L. WASHINGTON Flag flying above the bridge in this Coe Photo. More on page 7.
One Fourth of funds spent on threatened species goes to NW salmon
Northwest populations of Pacific salmon accounted for one of every four state and
federal dollars spent on saving endangered or threatened species during 2004
Sally the
according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. (Government agencies spent $393
million on helping the five Pacific salmon species — chinook, steelhead, coho, sockeye
Salmon Says...
and chum. The total government spending for 1,838 listed endangered species was
$1.4 billion)
Noting that dams are responsible for killing as much as 80 percent of the young fish
migrating to the ocean, salmon advocates argue that efforts to reduce harvests are
“Too many Sea
intended to divert attention from the dams — particularly their proposal to remove
Lions in the four dams on the lower Snake River in Eastern Washington. They note that NOAA
Columbia River Fisheries said in a 2000 plan that cutting out all fishing would have little effect on
could be the death listed runs.
of me!” American Rivers, a conservation group, estimates that breaching the four dams on
the Snake would cost as much as $4 billion over the next 10 years, while the Bush
administration says it will spend $6 billion over the next 10 years to modify eight
federally owned hydroelectric dams on the Snake and Columbia rivers to make them
less lethal to salmon.
, < Columbia” River Gillnetter if Official Publication oF ihe ,
Columbia River Fishermen’s Protective Union
One of the oldest Conservation Unions on the West Coast
EDITOR Jon Westerholm Incorporated in 1884
93798 Jackson Rd, Astoria, OR 97103 P. O. Box 627, Astoria, Oregon 97103
503/458-6518
Jon Westerholm, Editor - Phone [phone]
Columbia River Fishermen’s Foreword
Protective Union
This paper is being published for the purpose of keeping the public and the fishermen informed
One of the Oldest Conservation Unions of the facts and happenings in regard to the Columbia River Fishing Industry and people
on the West Coast—Since 1884 connected with it. Historical Articles and pictures will also be emphasized. The advertisements
which appear within make it financially possible to publish this paper and we hope you will in
PRESIDENT
return patronize and thank the business people who contributed to this cause. Anyone who
Gary Soderstrom
wishes to contribute articles, pictures stories, or ads, please contact the editor at:
P. O. Box 747, Clatskanie, OR 97016
P. O. Box 627, Astoria, Oregon 97103 or call [phone]
360/430-3317
FIRST VICE PRESIDENT
Help Support the
Alan Takalo
93491 Aldrich Point Rd, Astoria, OR 97103
503/458-6654
Columbia River Gillnetter Publication!
SECOND VICE PRESIDENT
| The Columbia River Gillnetter is one of the only remaining publication on the west coast devoted exclusively to
Kent Martin gillnetting. We have been making a difference for 37 years, but our continued existence is
P. O. Box 83 threatened by increasing production and mailing costs. Now more than ever, we need a voice
Skamokawa, WA 98647 to represent our side of the issue, and the Gillnetter is an important contact with fishermen,
lawmakers and the general public.
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY Jack Marincovich
If you would like to help, send donations to Columbia River Gillnetter,
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503/325-2504
The following individuals have made a contribution to the Columbia River Gillnetter
CRFPU Board of Directors
Publication, which will be used to help continue the publication and mailing of this free
DISTRICT 1
informational newspaper. We thank them for their support!
Ralph Ennis
14141 NE San Rafel, Portland, OR 97230
503/253-1559
June 2005 — January 2006
Vern Forsberg
28811 NW Main, Ridgefield, WA 98642
360/887-4089
Harry Sollars — Astoria In Memory of Don Riswick:
DISTRICTS 2, 3 Don Goodall — Lake City, FL
Jack Fowler Hoby Thacker — Skamokawa We. Richard Palo — Portland
6349 Willow Grove, Longview, WA 98632 John Winther — Vancouver, WA
Don Riswick, Jr — Port Orchard, WA
360/425-4662 Don McDaniel — Astoria
Arnold Anderson — Skamokawa, WA Raymond Krum — Hanford, CA
DISTRICT 4 Ed Feary — Astoria
John Kallunki Sam & Sophie Soter — Portland
79806 Blackford Road, Clatskanie, OR 97016 John Webb — Astoria
In Memory of Joe Thompson:
503/284551 Milt Doumit — Cathlamet, WA
Bob Seloover — Astoria Eileen Thompson — Astoria
Greg Mustola
Johnny Wahl — Lynnwood, WA
80190 Alston Mayger Road, Clatskanie, OR
Dave & Lynne Louthe — La Crosse, WI
97016 503/728-2248
Philip & Nettie Blair — Astoria
In Memory of Bill Young:
Knappton Cove Heritage Center
DISTRICT 5
Kent Martin Nancy Anderson — Gearhart Katherine Young — Olympia, WA
Ed Ericksen — Beaverton
PO Box 82, Skamokawa, WA 98647
Richard Brown — Canby
360/795-3920
Gary Ziak — Knappa
DISTRICT 6 George & Almeda Siverson — Astoria In Memory of Prosper & George Brajcich:
Vacant Jerry Sommerset — Sun Lakes, AZ Carol Brajcich — Clatskanie
Thomas Dean — Bellevue, WA
DISTRICT 7 Mike Killion — Albany
Jon Westerholm Don Cassady — Tillamook
93798 Jackson Rd., Astoria, OR 97103 Vern Logsdon — Warrenton In Memory of Clyde (Hoppy) Jones:
503/458-6518 Bill Ojanen — Astoria
Jones & Jones — Raymond, WA
Gerald Westerholm
P. O. Box 2075, Gearhart, OR 97138
503/738-7609
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Join your
when downstream salmon fingerling
migrants are present is critical.
In the most recent Salmon ultimatum
Union
the Feds, through the White House
Council on Environmental Quality,
have attacked Harvest
and Hatchery, indicating that
Hydropower and Habitat have done
The CRFPU board has
Cooperation and Fair Share enough to save Columbia Salmon and
authorized lessor membership
are overly financially burdened.
The Federal Government, this last We agree with fish advocates, price of $100.00 or $50.00 per
fall and early winter, has taken including the Tribes and Fishermen,
steps, without so much as a “knock that it sounds like the plan is meant year for those who want to
on the door” or an invitation to to divert attention from the help out.
“meet and discuss,” to force their Hydropower Dams where electric
The yearly voting membership
method of saving Salmon on the
producing turbines kill large numbers
Columbia River. First, funding is cut of young salmon every summer. This remains at $150.00.
for the Fish Passage Centers which, new Federal program fails to give
A Union card and receipt will
short of legal action, pretty well credit or even recognize the
assures its demise, and then after tremendous progress that has been be issuedi n each case.
the first of the year, the
made here in the NV, in the area of Send Dues checks to:
administration in Washington D.C., Harvest and Hatchery to protect
revealed plans to cut back on Jack Marincovich,
Wild ESA Salmon and assure their
harvest and shut down some future. If the dams are now the CRFPU
hatcheries.
largest problem, then that is where
el Oly laiep leve7/
we need to focus our attention. It
Leading the move to close the Astoria, OR 97103
makes no sense to shift the blame
independent Portland based Science
elsewhere.
agency, that was formed in 1984,
was the Idaho Senate Delegation. PLEASE PAY YOUR DUES!
In the recent Spring Salmon
They were very disturbed that the
Allocation issue meetings, it is
agency had presented information
Interesting to note that the NOmCay !
substantiating the spilling of water
Sport/Recreational fishery with an
over some Snake and Columbia River
advantage of a 60/40 percentage
|O UR OFFICE IS CHARGED FOR'
Hydropower Dams this summer, as
split in 2005, were asking the
ordered by the U.S. District Judge | EACH ISSUE OF THE GILLNET-1
Departments of Fish and Wildlife to
,saved many more thousands of 'TER RETURNED TO US. IF YOU}
increase their take to 70 percent. It
downstream migrating Salmon ' HAVE CHANGED YOUR AD- !
needs to be pointed out that the
fingerlings. Against overwhelming 'D RESS. PLEASE FILL OUT THIS!
people who were most interested in
statistics, the Federal Government, increasing their own catch |F ORM AND RETURN IT TO US.
Bonneville Power Administration,
possibility, at the expense of the
The Corps of Engineers, and The Name
majority, are not recreational
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
fishermen at all but rather 'New Address
Administration Fisheries (formerly
commercial guides, boat
the Nat’l. Marine Fisheries Service),
manufacturers, and others making a
still believes that collecting and
living off of the Sport of Fishing. Is
barging fingerlings around the dams
this the way it should be? It became
City
is more effective.
obvious to the Commercial
I
Gillnetters that if they didn’t ask for
Statewias aeeZ ID
The Tribes, Conservationists
some Equality and Fair Share from
Fishermen, and Oregon/Washington Phone
the compact, they would have
State Fishery Agencies, say that the ‘email
practically nothing left in their catch
Fish Passage Center is serving very l
for the many non fishing consumers
capably and should stay. We '_ Send to: Jon Westerholm, CRFPU,
in the stores, markets, and
certainly concur. Keeping the river restaurants and of course for their 1 P.O. Box 627, Astoria, OR 97103
as close to a natural flowing stream, L
own income. With the final compact put aside our differences and unite.
“ underson’s agreement allocation of 57/43, On the lighter side, we extend our
oy sport/commercial, it breaks down best wishes to Englund Marine with
to the Staff Biologists prediction of their Marvelous new store at Pier 3
an actual harvest, of marked on the Port of Astoria Dock. It will
hatchery reared Spring Chinook, of include the Fisher Brothers stock as
30,900 sport and 6,700 commercials well, all under one roof. Right next
including the Select Areas. door is the new location for
The final negative blow, in this Columbia Pacific Marine and their
CANNERY CAFE issue, was the “commercial sport reconditioned shop building. Also
One Sixth Street, Astoria, OR industry” starting a very visible and Bornstein Seafoods new plant, at the
[phone] “loud” boycott against one of the foot of Pier 1 will open later this
Serving Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission year and the new Harbormaster
member’s business, when it became Office Building, out at the end of
obvious they were not going to get Pier 1 facing the mooring basin, are
Columbia Travel what they wanted. This action was additions to the Port of Astoria
completely unwarranted, misguided,
landscape.
Clatsop County’s First Travel Agency
and just plain childish. We Salmon
Founded 1934 And finally, “enough already”,
harvesters need to step back and
referring to January’s weather
We’ll Get You The Best Fare! reconsider our motives and actions.
patterns with a record over 24 inches
Cooperation and working together,
Remember us for your family vacations! of rainfall, and one wind storm after
by all user groups, needs to prevail
AIR CRUISES TRAINS LODGING the other. May Mother Nature be
as never before, as we face many
kinder to us as we move towards
Rose Marie Paavola more serious threats to the Columbia
Spring, with some more decent
River and its Chinook Salmon. If we
fishing conditions.
382 Twelfth Street truly want this resource to be around
Astoria, Oregon
for future generations then we must
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Guest Editorial: Who does the fish resource belon g to?
By John Jovanovich
At the recent meeting held in fish for Columbia Spring Chinook sal- the responsibility
Olympia to determine the allocation mon. That figure of 15% would mean The Commission is obviously
split of the non Indian portion of the that 14, 478 sport fishermen were biased for the benefit of sportsmen.
harvestable Columbia River Spring given the exclusive right to 60% of Their vote to give 60% of a publicly
Chinook salmon between sport fish- the publicly owned Spring Chinook
owned fishery to sportsmen for their
ermen and commercial harvesters, fishery for their exclusive personal
exclusive use is blatantly wrong. All
the Washington Fish and Wildlife use. The other citizens numbering
citizens must be treated equally.
Commission voted to allocate 60% to over 9,000,000 must be satisfied
Sports fishermen have access to fish
sport fishermen and 40% to commer- with only 40%. This is insane. With-
by fishing for them. For whatever
cial harvesters. out specific data from Washington
reasons, the vast majority of citi-
Sitting on the commission were and Oregon it is questionable
zens do not go to the Columbia Riv-
five newly appointed members. No whether or not 14,478 sports fisher-
er to fish for those prize salmon and
information was presented on how men actually participate in the fish-
must rely on commercial harvesters
the new members were recommend- ery. While the figure could be much
to catch the fish to make it accessi-
ed and selected to serve on the higher, it could also be much lower.
ble for them through fish markets,
commission and no information was Some sport fishermen who spoke
presented on what knowledge and before the commission indicated stores and restaurants. The money
experience they had concerning the they wanted 70% of the harvestable commercial harvesters receive for
Columbia River fishery and the State non tribal fish to be for sportsmen the fish they sell to the processors
fish resource in general. It is unbe- exclusively. Obviously there is no is their payment for catching the
lievable that the commission would limit to what sportsmen want. In fish for all citizens, who do not or
render such a decision. No laws Washington State they tried twice cannot fish. Without the commer-
were cited authorizing the commis- by initiative to get 100% of the fish cial harvesters the general public is
sion to give a very large portion of a resource, statewide. left out.
public resource to a very minute It is ironic that those who were What has been going on with the
segment of the combined popula- given 60% of the Spring Chinook fish- fish resource needs to be changed.
tions of Washington and Oregon. ery is the same group that is playing Legislators cannot be expected to
The fish in question is a public re- a key role in the destruction of the know about all wrongful and unfair
source and belongs to all citizens. fish resource. Their in river activi- situations and it is up to concerned
Where in the Washington State con- ties are taking a toll on the natural citizens to inform them.
stitution does it allow a large por- production of fish. A study done in The recent action taken by the
tion of a public resource to be given Montana indicated that wading dur- Commission is a clear indication
to a tiny fraction of the entire popu- ing periods of fish egg incubation that their vote to give 60% of a pub-
lation for their exclusive use and was detrimental to all stages of the lic resource to a tiny fraction of the
benefit? One would expect the re- incubating process. High powered
population for their exclusive use
source to be managed to benefit the boats capable of destroying egg
and enjoyment is both biased and
entire populations of Washington nests are operating in tributaries of
wrong.
and Oregon. That obviously is not the Columbia River. Anchors that
Obviously the Commission does
the case. are dragged to slow drifting boats
not intend to end a policy that is
Consider this: Figures taken from destroy any nests they may be
wrong, unjust and possibly illegal.
the last census indicate the Wash- dragged through. Engaging in such
Change will have to come from the
ington population at 6,203,788 peo- activities is like planting a garden
legislative bodies of Washington and
ple which includes a Native and then walking all over and driv-
Oregon. Concerned people that be-
American population of 1.6%. The ing a tractor all over the planted
lieve change is long past due must
Oregon population was listed at area. These in river activities are
start informing their legislators
3,594,586 which includes a Native common and continue unabated.
about this unfair situation if they
American population of 1.3%. When Sport fishermen have voiced their
the combined Native American pop- opposition to restricting such activi- expect to see corrective changes
made.
ulations (145,99 1) are subtracted ties.
from the combined non Native Catch and release fishing activity
American populations of Washington will also kill fish that have suffered To quote Edmund Burke 1729-
and Oregon. (9,798,347) the com- injuries such as swallowed hooks, 1797: “The only thing necessary for
bined non Native American popula- torn jaw bones, etc. Such activities the triumph of evil is for good men
tion is 9, 652,356. 1% of 9, 652,356 are serious violations of the Endan- to do nothing”.
is 96, 523 people. Assume that 15% gered Species Act and the states
of 96, 523 are sport fishermen that that allow such activities must bear John Jovanovich, Seattle, WA
GOOD JOB!
“We
ny On January 6th and January 14th sure is that they know that we are
our fishermen attended still a strong active group of
Commissioners Meetings in Salem commercial fishermen trying to
and Olympia to testify on the make a living and protect our way
allocation of Spring Salmon of life.
between Commercial and Sport
Fishermen. | was impressed by the The Oregon Commissioners voted
great turnout we had at booth 5-4 for a 55-45 split on allocation,
meetings. The testimony by all Washington 60-40. We were asking
could not have been better. for a fair share of 50-50.
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ee nate before. | think by sitting in at both
meetings the impression | got is The latest report we received was
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Saturday 9 am to 5 pm
Sunday 12 to 4pm states received our testimony very agreed on a 57-43 share on Spring
well. Salmon.
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To the Editor Saimon For All News
Dear Jon, Fish Passage Center €ut federal funding of the Fish Passage
In reference to the pier 39 story in the By inserting a 16-word sentence into a Center. The bill also required the Power
last issue of the Gillnetter. | just recent Senate appropriations bill, Idaho Council and the BPA to find another
wanted to let you know that the Senator Larry Craig put the Fish Passage agency or organization that would take
Warren Packing Co., built in 1869 is Center on the chopping block. Calling over the job within 120 days. That
still standing and is used by our family the work of the FPC “data cloaked in agency, in Sen. Craig’s view, was to be
for fish buying and net storage. advocacy,” Sen. Craig sought to put an required to provide “neutral” data
Milt Doumit end, once-for-all, to independent and analysis, presumably such that would
Cathlamet neutral analysis of salmonid mortality exonerate the hydropower system of any
due to the Columbia River hydropower blame for the decline of endangered
system. salmon stocks.
To the Editor: The Fish Passage Center was founded in Northwest Power and Conservation
| enjoyed the article on the cold 1984 to provide the Northwest Power Council member Joan Dukes, speaking on
Council with data that would help gauge this topic at the CRFPU annual meeting,
storage last issue. | worked there in
the impacts of hydroelectric operations had this to say of Sen. Craig: “He didn’t
the summer of 1943. My boss was Eli
on threatened and endangered stocks of like the message, so he killed the
Nilsen who’s son Hank played
Columbia River salmon. That analysis messenger. The people who work at the
basketball on the 1935 state champs
conclusively showed that 80-90% of all Fish Passage Center are not politicians,
team. Bob Arnet, Wally Johanson and
salmonid mortality in the Columbia River and they’re not activists. They’re
Ted Sarpola went on to the University basin is due to the maze of dams and scientists and computer experts. They
of Oregon and played on the 1939 impoundments that juvenile salmonids don’t make up the numbers; they just
team that won the first NCAA must negotiate in order to reach the crunch them.”
championship. Hank was good enough Pacific Ocean. We can only hope that the House does
to make that team but chose to play In the mid 1990s, a diverse group of not approve an appropriations bill with
football instead. | also gillnetted with scientists used this analysis to advise the the same provisions regarding the Fish
my uncle in 1941-1942. Power Council that in order to reverse Passage Center, and that Sen. Craig’s
Jerry Sommerset the ongoing trend towards extinction of chicanery is overruled in the negotiations
Arizona, formerly Astoria endangered salmon runs, the Columbia that follow.
River should, insofar as possible, be
returned to more natural stream-flow injunctive Relief Ordered
conditions. Their recommendations, At a December 15 Hearing in Portland,
Jon,
called “Return to the River,” were the Judge James Redden appeared receptive
Thank you for the Columbia River
harbinger of Federal Judge James to an EarthJustice request for increased
Gillnetter publication, we really enjoy
Redden’s remand of the 2000 and 2004 remedial spill to ensure greater
reading it. Enclosed is our contribution
Biological Opinions prepared by NOAA survivability for migrating juvenile
in memory of our father Clyde (Hoppy)
Fisheries for managing the Columbia salmonids during 2006. Judge Redden
Jones of Raymond, Washington. River system in a manner consistent with indicated that he would likely return a
Robert P. Jones salmon survival. In his sternly worded split decision, granting increased spill
Jerry R. Jones remand of the 2004 BiOp, Judge Redden through the end of the summer migration
gave federal fishery managers one year season, but likely ruling against holding
to come back with a workable plan that more water in upper river reservoirs
would not be in violation of the through winter and spring in order to
To the Editor: Endangered Species Act, and required better mimic natural stream flow.
Thanks for the continued copies of the them to file bi-weekly progress reports. In an interesting twist, tribal interests
Gillnetter publication. | come from a If, at the end of that year, he were to came out against the request for
find their proposal unacceptable for the increased spill. Although the ancestors of
long line of Norwegian and Swedish
third time, he strongly cautioned them, the Colville, Spokane and Kootenai
fishermen, in the Old Country and
he could and perhaps even would order Tribes all depended on salmon for
North America. Keep up the good work
the removal of the four lower Snake survival, their present-day descendants
and continued issues.
River dams. are worried that drawing down reservoirs
John Winther
Judge Redden relied upon the data might expose and endanger ancient
Vancouver, WA analysis prepared by the Fish Passage burial sites now flooded beneath those
Center to come to his ruling on the two reservoirs.
BiOps. That is what angered Sen. Craig, Representatives of the Bonneville Power
Corrections from the previous former National Hydropower Association Administration warned that increased
(Summer 2005) edition: “legislator of the year.” Like many spill would result in greatly increased
Photo showing the Kinney Cannery at another underhanded legislative trick of power costs in 2006. Not so, countered
Northshore remains in 1971 on page the sort to which both congress and our the NW Energy Coalition. Bonneville said
17, and the 2 Kinney Cannery, state legislatures have been too long the same thing about the injunctive
Northshore pictures on page 31 prone, by inserting unrelated language in relief granted in 2005, but BPA rates
should have accompanied Bill must-pass legislation, Sen. Craig forced actually went down, not up. Analysis by
Gunderson’s article “Remembering an up-or-down vote on the budget the Energy Coalition showed that the
resolution that also banned future maximum cost of increased spill for
Northshore.”
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ratepayers who are completely prepared by the U.S v Oregon Technical commercial fleet. Counting the
dependent on BPA-generated electricity Advisory Committee. tributaries and Select Areas, the sports
would range between 20 cents and 2 took home 83.9% and the commercials
dollars a month. Yet this affordable The Truth about Allocations only 16.1% of the total in-river,
non-native harvest. Total harvest was
investment would yield returns of By the time the Columbia River
98,882 spring salmon, nearly double what
millions of dollars to Columbia River Gillnetter goes to press, the allocation
fisheries. decisions for the spring salmon fishery it had been the year before.
Judge Redden ruled as expected on will have come and gone. Both the In 2002, an even larger catch was
harvested: over 115,000 spring salmon.
Thursday, December 29, 2005. Oregon and Washington Commissions
The split in 2002 was 60/40 in favor of
held their allocation hearings in the first
Updated 21006 Forecast two weeks of January. The Oregon the sports. Surprisingly, the CR mainstem
The Joint Management Team of ODFW & Commission approved a 55/45 allocation catch actually turned out to be 60% vs.
WDFW issued its updated forecast for split. On the other hand, the Washington 40%. But, with the tributaries and SAFE,
Spring and Summer Chinook and Sockeye Commission voted for keeping the 60/40 the total catch was 77.1% sport and
(Blueback) salmon On December 15,, allocation split for two more years. It 22.9% commercial.
2005. The numbers aren’t exactly rosy, will be up to the two Departments of In 2003, nearly 92,000 fish were
but then, with the 2005 forecast so far Fish & Wildlife to hash out the harvested. The split was 65/35 in favor
off the mark, the agencies feel they differences at the Columbia River of the recreational fishery. The sports
have good reason to be cautious about Compact. took in a staggering 86.1% of the CR
2006. Salmon For All and the CRFPU felt fully mainstem harvest, leaving us only 13.9%.
For Upriver Spring Chinook, the forecast justified going into the allocation With tributaries and Select Areas, our
is for 88,400 to return in 2006, of which hearings seeking a 50/50 split in share went down even further, 88.2% for
46,200 will be Snake River allowable ESA impacts between the sport the sports, and only 11.8% commercial.
Spring/Summer Chinook, and 12,600 will and commercial fisheries. And, no, this is In 2004, we got back what we lost the
be Upper Columbia Spring Chinook. Of not about a rapacious desire to harvest year before and went back to a 60/40
the Snake River Spring/ Summer the last fish. We fully support adequate split. Catch numbers boosted back up to
Chinook, 14,600 are expected to be wild efforts to restore threatened and 100,555. That year, the sports landed
stocks. Of the Upper Columbia Spring endangered stocks. 65.5% of the CR mainstem harvest, and
Chinook, only 1,600 are expected to be The last year we had a 50/50 split in the commercials but 34.5%. But the total
wild. These numbers are all down allocations based on ESA impacts was the harvest picture, counting tributaries and
significantly from 2005, when 254,100 year 2000. That year, even though the SAFE, was 76.5% vs. 23.5%.
Upper Spring Chinook were forecast, but sports only caught 39.4% of the During 2005, the split remained at 60/40.
only 106,900 actually returned. mainstem Columbia River harvest, as However, the large run anticipated by
For Summer Chinook, the forecast for opposed to 60.6% for the commercial the pre-season forecast did not occur.
2006 is 49,000. The 2005 forecast of fleet, the total number of salmon caught 62,506 spring salmon were harvested.
62,400 was not far off the actual return in the mainstem was less than 800 fish. The CR mainstem catch percentages
of 60,000. But, the agencies are playing When the Washington and Oregon closely mirrored those of 2004, 65.2% vs.
it safe with a low estimate. tributaries and the Select Area Fisheries 34.8%. But the total harvest figures were
The Joint Management Team forecast are factored in, a different picture 87.4% vs. 12.6%. Some of the figures for
calls them Sockeye, but we all know emerges. The sports actually took home 2005, especially the recreational harvest,
them better on the Columbia as 86.1% of the harvest, leaving the are preliminary, using estimates based
Bluebacks. (But then, they don’t know commercial fleet only 13.9% of the total upon previous years’ catches.
how to spell Elochoman, either.) For harvest. The overall picture is clear. Based upon
2006, the forecast is for 31,000 to In 2001, the first of several years of large the years 2000-2005, the average sport
return, of which only 21 are expected to runs returned, thanks to improving ocean vs. commercial catch percentages during
be Snake River fish. In 2005, the forecast conditions. That year the ESA impact the spring salmon fishery run about 66.5%
was for 70,700 Bluebacks, but 77,200 split was 47/53 in favor of the vs. 33.5% in the CR mainstem, but 83.2%
returned, of which only 20 were from commercial side of the equation. But the vs. 16.8% of total harvest, counting
the Snake River; the forecast had been sports took in 79.5% of the CR mainstem tributaries and Select Areas. No matter
for 66 Snake River fish. - Forecast harvest, as opposed to 29.5% for the what the ESA impact splits have been,
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